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‘Mystic’ Met Office’s Climategate Protection Racket

The Met Office has embarked on an urgent exercise to bolster the reputation of climate-change science after the furore over stolen e-mails. More than 1,700 scientists have agreed to sign a statement defending the “professional integrity” of global warming research. They were responding to a round-robin request from the Met Office, which has spent four [...]

Taxpayers’ Wallets Barbecued by Met Office

More than 1,700 staff at the government-owned Met Office have received a lump sum of about £650 each for meeting targets, including improvements to the accuracy of forecasts, totalling £1.1 million. CRN has compiled a list of previous ‘Mystic Met’ Office failures here. Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction has written to Peter Mendelson: To: Lord Peter [...]

Met Office to Issue Revised Summer Forecast

You will need a brolly on holiday in the UK in August – the Met Office is issuing a revised forecast for more unsettled weather well into the month. It is a far cry from the “barbecue summer” it predicted back in April. The news will raise questions about the Met Office’s ability to make [...]

Weather Action: Met Office Winter ‘Forecast’ 2009-10 ‘Reckless Misleading Nonsense’

Met Office winter ‘forecast’ 2009-10 attacked as ‘reckless misleading nonsense without scientific basis or skill’. “It should be ignored absolutely. The opposite to whatever the Met Office says in long range has been what happened for the last three years!” Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction said today, 23 July:   “The Met Office long range [...]

Good News! Climate Alarmist UK Met Office Suffers Budget Cut

The UK’s Met Office has had its funding for climate research slashed by a quarter, following withdrawal of financial support by the government’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The loss of £4.3 million (US$7.0 million) in funding from the MoD will affect the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change in Exeter, the world-class climate modelling [...]

Alarmist Met Office Attacks ‘Misleading Apocalyptic Climate Predictions’

The Guardian ran a lead story with the headline, ‘Apocalyptic climate predictions’ mislead the public, say experts Experts at Britain’s top climate research centre have launched a blistering attack on scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming. In an article published on the Guardian website, Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate [...]

Yawn! UK Met Office Predicts Demise of Scottish Ski Industry

The country’s five resorts are currently enjoying exceptional conditions after heavy snowfall in the Highlands, but climate change may mean they have less than 50 years of ski-ing left. It was -18C in Aviemore this week – the coldest night of the year in the UK – but Met Office climate predictions suggest that by [...]

CO2 Emissions from Met Office Supercomputer

A new £33m machine purchased to calculate how climate change will affect Britain, has a giant carbon footprint of its own. For the Met Office the forecast is considerable embarrassment. It has spent £33m on a new supercomputer to calculate how climate change will affect Britain – only to find the new machine has a [...]

Mystic Met: A Review of UK Met Office Predictions and Statements

The Met Office is the UK Government’s official Meteorological agency and a key promoter of climate alarmism, which claims that simulation models are now accurate predictors of both global and local effects of stimuli to the climate. Presented below is a chronology of notable predictions via Met Office press releases and media articles starting on [...]

 

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New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History? Available from Amazon UK here: More from Booker himself here. (1)

Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
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